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Penedès News Summary – February 2012

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Gran Penedès

Generalitat introduces the so called VAO3+ discount for highly occupied vehicles on the payroad C-32, connecting Baix Penedès and Garraf with the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Read more in Catalan

Garraf: Sitges, Vilanova i la…

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Penedès News – Summary January 2012

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

This is a selection of local Penedès news from the month of January, 2012.

Gran Penedès

The new motorway C15 is used by 16.000 vehicles per day between Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) and Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès), and by 10.500 …

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Penedès News in a different format

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Penedès News has been one of the main pillars in the editorial line of this blog for the last few months and the time has come to evaluate the results. By now, I consider that I have been running project long enough to make conclusions and decide on …

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‘Minyons de l’Arboç’ and ‘Jove de Vilafranca’ end the season with nice human towers

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

The Diada de la Colla which Bordegassos de Vilanova organised on November 13, did not become the success the team had hoped for, but the two guest teams partly compensated for that and offered the spectators in plaça de les Cols of Vilanova i la Ge…

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Calafell will not receive a new public library

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Due to budget cuts, there will not be a new municipal library in Calafell (Baix Penedès). The former municipal government (PSC, ERC and ADMC) planned to house it on the second floor of the new fresh food market, of which the construction work has rec…

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El Vendrell and Calafell co-hosts of 2017 Mediterranean Games

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

October 15, cava bottles popped open throughout the province of Tarragona when the Interational Committee for the Mediterranean Games made official that this Catalan town had been selected to organize the 18th edition, 2017.

The Tarragona edition is…

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Sunny Santa Teresa Fair in el Vendrell

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

October 13-16, el Vendrell (Baix Penedès) saw the 182th edition of the town’s annual multi-sectorial trade fair, Fira de Santa Teresa. The organisers are very content with the event and suggest that the sunny weather helped them making so many peopl…

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8th edition of the human towers ‘Concurs-7′ in Torredembarra

Friday, October 7th, 2011

October 2 saw the 8th edition of Concurs de Castells Vila de Torredembarra. Unofficially this human tower challenge is called Concurset, which is a pun in Catalan since it means the “little competition” – in contrast to the big one, Concurs de …

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Calafell approves plans for ‘insitut’ in Segur

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

The politicians of the town council (ajuntament) in Calafell (Baix Penedès) have unanimously adopted the project to build a secondary school (institute) in the area of Segur, between l’avinguda Brasil and carrer de la Cúspide, to be more precise.

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Romans headhunting gladiators at Calafell’s Ciutadella Ibèrica

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

On September 24, the open air museum and excavation site Ciutadella Ibèrica hosted the fourth edition of Calafell’s (Baix Penedès) live role play (joc de rol en viu). Only 50 people could take part, so all participants had had to sign up in advanc…

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